tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783278033026774255.post9156415421165744698..comments2024-01-21T13:57:13.702-06:00Comments on malevolent & benign: Death MachinesMaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07615194097431562045noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783278033026774255.post-53171584873138586802008-05-28T20:58:00.000-05:002008-05-28T20:58:00.000-05:00Anybody remember the GW add-on game Gammarauders? ...Anybody remember the GW add-on game Gammarauders? Big Godzilla-looking things cybernetically enhanced with missiles and shields and such. It was a more or less conventional wargame (kinda like OGRE), but the infantry units were called popcorn.<BR/><BR/>'Cause the Gammarauders would eat them up like, well, popcorn. :-)Secular Transhumanisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16793034218287755156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783278033026774255.post-67359471667466072492008-05-25T19:48:00.000-05:002008-05-25T19:48:00.000-05:00In my campaign, the Death Machine was renamed the ...In my campaign, the Death Machine was renamed the R-50 A.O.D., which before the big one stood for A.ntigravity O.cillation D.rive. Those that encountered it in post-Big One 'Merica knew it as the A.ngel O.f D.eathBigFellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03052419088140204154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783278033026774255.post-31870373025819260572008-05-25T10:30:00.000-05:002008-05-25T10:30:00.000-05:00An excellent point, James. Given my sense of the ...An excellent point, James. Given my sense of the place as a place of slapstick ultraviolence and junkyard pop-culture bricolage, I tend to underthink the pre-history of the Gamma World. <BR/><BR/>That said, here's a thought. Let the Elmore Death Machine remain canonical. Instead, the machine in the photo is a massive excavation bot (more or less true, if I recall correctly) repurposed as a seige engine by some mad cryptic alliance...howling mutants firing blasters, shotguns and crossbows from the girders, shock troops mustering in cages bolted to the engine housing, waiting for that awful saw the chew through the walls...That'll do!Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07615194097431562045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783278033026774255.post-32864377443261974582008-05-25T08:31:00.000-05:002008-05-25T08:31:00.000-05:00Strange thing is that I always loved that Elmore i...Strange thing is that I always loved that Elmore illustration for precisely the reason you dislike it: it's bland. I thought nothing better exemplified the blasé attitude the Ancients had toward warfare than the death machine, whose name I always assumed was a post-apocalyptic nickname rather than its official one, which was likely something dull and bureaucratic.James Maliszewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1783278033026774255.post-38447274379993897572008-05-24T11:43:00.000-05:002008-05-24T11:43:00.000-05:00Awesome example of Death Machine! I had forgotten ...Awesome example of Death Machine! I had forgotten about that monstrosity from Gamma World. I always pictured it as some clunky, oil leaking, metal on metal grinding, steam emitting mess of deadly engineering. <BR/><BR/>I've given up on finding my long lost 1e GW box, so it seems I'll have to eBay at some point.<BR/><BR/>~ShamSham aka Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14329116400656617173noreply@blogger.com